Maxine Smith, Dorothy Truitt Walk and Cornelia Crenshaw were civil rights leaders who challenged injustice and made a difference for all Memphians.

Through their collective achievements, these extraordinary women created lasting foundations for social justice, equality, ...

Everyday women” of the Civil Rights Movement should inspire Christians today to become “courageous resisters,” according to ...

For Women's History Month, Her Campus spoke with women's and gender studies professors to learn why they chose this career — ...

GREENVILLE, S.C. – Local library patrons, with help from the American Civil Liberties Union and ACLU of South ... violated library patrons’ First and Fourteenth Amendment rights. "Books are one of our ...

Yet there seems to be little appetite for throwing the book ... and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee led sit-ins and other acts designed to provoke arrest, making the injustice of those ...

Since 2013, Triad Cultural Arts has worked to preserve an architecturally significant shotgun house as a symbol of African ...

The only thing better than getting lost in a good book ... women put their mind to it, there’s nothing we can’t do. Set in Alabama in the early 1970s, “Take My Hand” tells the story of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — A bill moving through the Minnesota Legislature would establish a “Minnesota Women’s Bill of Rights” and classify a person as being either male or female. Introduced by Sens ...

FILE - An Alabama state trooper swings a club at John Lewis, right foreground, chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, to break up a civil rights voting march in Selma ...